Tax Brackets; Tax Rates

Wednesday, September 29, 2010

A Dork By Any Other Name

So do you think this guy's ever been laid? CNN (09.29.10):

"A conservative activist known for making undercover videos plotted to embarrass a CNN correspondent by recording a meeting on hidden cameras aboard a floating 'palace of pleasure' and making sexually suggestive comments, e-mails and a planning document show."

Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Good God!

Ha! This is pretty funny: "On average, people who took the survey answered half the questions incorrectly, and many flubbed even questions about their own faith." NYTimes (09.28.10):

"That finding might surprise some, but not Dave Silverman, president of American Atheists, an advocacy group for nonbelievers that was founded by Madalyn Murray O’Hair.

'I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people,' Mr. Silverman said. 'Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That’s how you make atheists.'"

UPDATE: Zowie. This could turn out to be one ugly election for Christine: "(O)ur polling suggests with O'Donnell's victory that Coons will win more Republicans than any other Democratic Senate candidate in the country."

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

A Lonely Place Indeed

"'But when they come into court and they have to support those opinions and they have to defend those opinions under oath and cross-examination, those opinions just melt away. And that's what happened here. There simply wasn't any evidence, there weren't any of those studies.'"

"'There weren't any empirical studies. That's just made up. That's junk science. It's easy to say that on television. But a witness stand is a lonely place to lie. And when you come into court you can't do that.'"

Wonkette continues: "This research was highlighted in a report that John McCain and Jim Coburn wrote about wasteful stimulus spending, since the only thing those guys hate more than science is paying for science."

The research in question is being done by the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. They are studying cocaine addiction and the incidences of relapse. They weren't going to use monkeys at first, but they found out there are a few pesky ethical issues with having humans as subjects.